Archive: June 2020

Getty Images Late in 2023, the corporate world was abuzz with the utopian promise of AI — especially about the tech’s effects on the environment. From today’s vantage point, some of the corporate claims floating around back then sound patently absurd: Google insisted that AI had the potential to “mitigate 5-10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions,” while Microsoft enthused that the new tech would “accelerate the discovery and development of sustainab

Architecture of the proposed MLP-CLM O approach. Credit: Energy and AI (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.egyai.2025.100596 Last year, wind energy accounted for 23.2% of all energy injected into the Spanish electricity system, according to data published by Red Eléctrica in its latest 2024 report. Although wind power leads national energy production, its dependence on weather conditions and its inherently intermittent nature present challenges. Therefore, fine-tuning

On November 12 (U.S. time), a disruption occurred that prevented users from connecting to the email mailbox in Microsoft's cloud service "Microsoft 365" email service "Exchange Online." This affected not only the web version of "Outlook," but also the desktop application, mobile application, MAPI, ActiveSync, and REST connections. Microsoft has restored some of the servers and is applying similar measures to other servers, but has not announced the time fo

Google has started pre-orders for its "intelligent eyewear" device, which is a joint development with South Korean Samsung Electronics, on November 12 (local time) in the United States and South Korea. The frame design is handled by U.S. Warby Parker and South Korean Gentle Monster, with general availability set for December 10. There is no mention of sales in Japan. It is expected that the Google Store in the United States will not sell it. The price star

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images If Elon Musk ever cuts the ribbon on his massive chip factory “Terafab,” it could be among the largest buildings on Earth — and one of the most expensive. Terafab, announced in a painfully awkward conference over the weekend, is a joint semiconductor venture between Musk’s SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI companies. Should it ever come to be — we’re skeptical — the fact

Read Nvidia’s internal emails about the ‘extraordinarily difficult period’ amid CEO shakeupNvidia’s board and interim CEO Colette Kress told employees they’re ready to ‘move forward together.’Nvidia’s board and interim CEO Colette Kress told employees they’re ready to ‘move forward together.’Cath Virginia / The VergePart OfNvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned. What happens next?see all updates Jensen Huang resigned as CEO of Nvidia this morning, a company

Getty / Futurism Data centers designed to power immensely resource-intensive AI models have turned into a major point of contention. The sweeping facilities have proven immensely unpopular, particularly in rural areas, where they’ve been accused of causing electricity prices to spike. Companies are spending billions of dollars on the computing infrastructure, despite ongoing concerns over environmental effects and power grid stability. Now, new legislation

Getty Images While workers in the western world agonize over what seems to be an impending job apocalypse, their Chinese counterparts are winning in pitched legal battles against AI automation. Last week, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese court ruled that companies can’t use AI as an excuse to fire workers. The case involved a quality assurance supervisor, identified only by his surname Zhou, who was hired in 2022 to oversee a tech c

Gett Images / Eoneren You probably already know that AI is a deeply bizarre technology. Nobody really understands how it works on a deep level, even the people creating it, leading to ongoing behavioral issues that can’t be explained. OpenAI was recently caught giving ChatGPT instructions to stop talking about “goblins” so much. Despite Anthropic’s best efforts, Claude can easily be coaxed to help users carry out a bioterror attack. The list goes on. Needl

Published on May 29, 2026 at 10:30 Comment 3 𝕏 Print Claude Opus 4.8 © Naïm Bada for 01net Anthropic published Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, alongside a 244-page technical report. The metrics are improving, and the bill is going down. But a full reading of the document reveals a detail that Anthropic describes as the “most worrying discovery”: during training, Opus 4.8 showed a tendency to reason about how its responses would be graded, including when nothing

@quotidiaRing Robotics Key Points: Indoor Drone $249.99, Patrol Robot $999.99, AI Pilot Creates a Floor PlanAIChatGPTGenerative AILLMSecurity0Posted at 2026-11-11TAG40@@ This article is an analysis of overseas news published by AI Quotidia, which I run. Ring, an Amazon company, announced a new series of mobile security devices called "Ring Robotics" on Tuesday, November 10, 2026 (U.S. time). Key Points Amazon-owned Ring announced the new mobile security de

As we all know by now, if you stick microphones into the faces of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, they will say something to the effect of I am trying to build technology that threatens the world and I need you to create policies aimed at stopping me. The UN signed up for a performance of this AI spooky story show, and duly received one on Wednesday. “We could lose control of the future to AI,” Altman told the UN Security Council duri

A clip from the simulation where virtual robots learn to climb steps. An army of more than 4,000 marching doglike robots is a vaguely menacing sight, even in a simulation. But it may point the way for machines to learn new tricks. The virtual robot army was developed by researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and chipmaker Nvidia. They used the wandering bots to train an algorithm that was then used to control the legs of a real-world robot. In the simu

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock If you’re among the millions of US citizens against power-hungry data centers going up in your town, you may want to be careful about how you exercise your First Amendment right to protest. Last week, high school physics teacher Lux Claridge was hauled out of a public meeting by four police officers for the baffling crime of clapping in support of an anti-data center speaker. During the p

Nevada will soon become the first state to use AI to help speed up the decision-making process when ruling on appeals that impact people’s unemployment benefits. The state’s Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation (DETR) agreed to pay Google $1,383,838 for the AI technology, a 2024 budget document shows, and it will be launched within the “next several months,” Nevada officials told Gizmodo. Nevada’s first-of-its-kind AI will rely on a Googl

A color-treated photo of a medical student looking at a smartphone. It’s no secret that doctors across the world are using AI tools to do stuff from taking notes to looking up questions. But what about the next generation of doctors still in training? According to two medical professionals on the ground, the situation is looking pretty alarming. With AI being used by med students, “the danger is not just deskilling but never-skilling,” write Simar Bajaj, a

The 5-minute AI newsletter. The stories that matter, in your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe Now